Day in Pictures, May 28, 2014

May 28, 2014 |By Mike Moffitt

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Please don't let Fifty Cent throw me: The three-banded armadillo turns itself into a ball when frightened, which ironically makes it more likely to be drafted for a game of catch. Not that biologist Rodrigo Cerqueira of the Rio Zoo in Rio de Janeiro (that's his arm) would ever do such a thing. He's working to protect the endangered creature from extinction.

Silvia Izquierdo/Associated Press

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Please don't let Fifty Cent throw me: The three-banded armadillo turns itself into a ball when frightened, which ironically makes it more likely to be drafted for a game of catch. Not that biologist Rodrigo Cerqueira of the Rio Zoo in Rio de Janeiro (that's his arm) would ever do such a thing. He's working to protect the endangered creature from extinction.